Install JVM xgboost package

For a complete guide and documentation, please refer to the official xgoost documentation.

Here, I’m just reporting a quick start to install xgboost under Linux platform to run it under spark environment as described in my previous post.

First of all you need to clone xgboost repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

You need to have a recent gcc compiler to compile xgboost. I installed and used the redhat development tools and so I have gcc 5.3.1.

Now, move to your xgboost directory

cd xgboost

and compile the project

make -j4

If you want to have your python installation type:

cd python-package && python setup.py install

To install jvm package, move to the directory jvm-packages and compile and install the package with

mvn -DskipTests clean package install

Done!

You can access to your scala, python and java xgboost API.

Now you can try to run the code of this post

Happy sparking!